Jakob Jehly
Jakob Jehly (born April 17, 1854 in Bludenz ; † March 27, 1897 there ) was an Austrian painter .
Live and act
Jakob Jehly came from a family of artists from Bludenz, whose activities can be traced back to the early 18th century . His great-grandfather Johann Mathias Jehly (1747–1809) had already learned painting from his father Franz Ulrich. The two sons Josef Andreas and Mathias († 1858) also continued the trade.
In 1871, at the age of 16, Jehly began his training at the Academy in Munich with Wilhelm Diez . There he was taught the most important basics for realistic landscape painting until 1876 . He and his friend Johann Josef Makloth (* 1846 in Tschagguns ; † 1908 in Munich) left for Munich and the two painters were friends for a long time.
Individual altarpieces from the Bludenz area ( St. Antonius Church and St. Peter's Monastery ) show that Jehly initially resorted to the traditional Nazarene painting style, which was widely used in Vorarlberg at the time .
On December 3, 1879, the painter, who came from a humble background, married the widowed Wanda (Vanda) Douglass (née Baroness von Pöllnitz). Their son Norman Douglas was one of the most important travel writers in Europe.
The financial independence now enabled Jehly to work exclusively as a landscape and portrait painter . He sought the motifs for his drawings , watercolors and paintings primarily in Bludenz and the surrounding valleys.
His daughter Grete , born in 1882, later made a name for herself as a writer . From 1883 on he lived with his wife and daughter in the "Villa Armatin" built with the architect Georg Baumeister.
Today Jakob-Jehly-Straße in Bludenz is named after him. A selection of his works can be seen in the Bludenz City Museum .
Works (selection)
- Altarpiece St. Anthony with Mary and Child (St. Antonius Church)
- Holy Family (1872), originally in the Bürserberg Church, today in the St. Peter Monastery
literature
- Jehly Jacob. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 93 f. (Direct links on p. 93 , p. 94 ).
- Memories of Jacob Jehly of Hermann Sander (1897)
- The Bludenz painter Jakob Jehly by Andreas Rudigier (History Association Region Bludenz, 1997)
- Maklott - Jehly - Schmid: the Montafon in the field of art historical considerations of the 19th century ; Catalog for the exhibition in the Montafon local history museum Schruns, May 27 to October 26, 2004 / [Montafon local history museum Schruns; Heimatschutzverein im Tale Montafon]. Roswitha Zwetti; Andreas Rudigier
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jehly, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bludenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1897 |
| Place of death | Bludenz |